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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Rose Pickles when she begins to get alarmingly thin in Chapter V?
(a) 17.
(b) 15.
(c) 16.
(d) 21.

2. How did one of the Aboriginal women commit suicide at One Cloud Street, according to the narrator in Chapter III?
(a) She slit her wrists.
(b) She drank ant poison.
(c) She hung herself.
(d) She overdosed on pain pills.

3. What is the name of the young woman that Quick Lamb begins dating in Chapter VI?
(a) Beryl Lee.
(b) Elaine Lee.
(c) Lucy Wentworth.
(d) Dolly Pickles.

4. The boy that Quick finds drowned in the river in Chapter X turns out to be whose son?
(a) Geoffrey Birch’s.
(b) Lester Lamb's.
(c) The town mayor's.
(d) The Nedlands Monster’s.

5. Who dismantles the tent in the backyard in the end of Chapter X?
(a) Quick Lamb and Fish Lamb.
(b) Lester Lamb and Sam Pickles.
(c) Ted Pickles and Elaine Lamb.
(d) Dolly Pickles and Oriel Lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spends all day in Kings Park in Chapter VII?

2. What month is it when the warm weather begins in Australia, according to the narrator in Chapter V?

3. Kings Park is one of the largest inner city parks in the world. Approximately how many acres comprise Kings Park?

4. Kings Park in Perth has panoramic views of what river?

5. What war is under way in Chapter III of the novel?

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